How To Remove Brown Background on Gnome Startup?

[Shot - Piotr Szotkowski]

Michael T. Richter:

> On Tue, 2006-17-01 at 20:33 +0100, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote:

>> Go to System | Administration | Login Screen Setup, GTK+ Greeter tab
>> and change the Background colour in lower-right corner of that tab.

> This doesn't quite work.  I have my desktop background
> changed as well as my login screen background.

These are separate. Desktop background is changed
via System | Preferences | Desktop Background.

> There is still a short period -- when that dialogue pops up to list
> the programs (by icon) being launched -- where the Ubuntu Brown is
> still displayed.  You know -- the one that has the metacity icon
> first?

Right, and that's the login screen background. In my case, changing
it via Login Screen Setup did the trick. Maybe you don't have the GTK+
Greeter's Backgrond selector (top left corned of the tab) set to Colour?

-- Shot